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Netherlands. Another possibility is that he was apprenticed to a goldsmith, his brother-in-law Simon Adriaensz Rottermont. Both possibilities are suggestive in view of de Vries' virtuoso casting technique and refined finish.
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Paul Getty Museum in 1999. Fourteen sculptures, the largest collection of De Vries' work, are in
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